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The image is grainy and the audio isn't clear, but what's happening is unmistakable. Brian Gore had just proposed to his girlfriend, Shannon N. Smith, at a crowded restaurant. She covered her mouth and nose with her hands as cameras flashed. She took the ring and placed it on her finger. Then she and Gore, who were charged Friday with penning a malnourished young girl in their Gloucester County mobile home, locked in a long embrace. The video, uploaded less than three years ago on Gore's MySpace page on the Internet, shows the couple before authorities made the startling discovery last week while investigating an unrelated burglary. The girl was found under a crib that had...

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The image is grainy and the audio isn't clear, but what's happening is unmistakable.
Brian Gore had just proposed to his girlfriend, Shannon N. Smith, at a crowded restaurant. She covered her mouth and nose with her hands as cameras flashed. She took the...

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A beer bottle was lit up like a Christmas tree on one Facebook page and flanked by stuffed animals in another.
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At a...

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The Troubadour, awash on a recent night in indigo light and chiming guitars, doesn't look all that different than it did in the 1970s, when music history plugged in to the club's stage amps and earned the tiny...